I'm a Celtics fan and spend most of my time over in /r/bostonceltics but the offseason is starting to wind down and I'm wondering how you feel about your team's moves. I think the Celtics have had an A+ offseason but I haven't been paying nearly as close attention to most of the other teams. I read the "Grades" article on ESPN but I was hoping to get some fan perspectives so...

What team do you support?

On an F - A+ scale, what grade do you give this offseason for your team?

Do you feel like your team made moves to improve next season, in the long term, both, or neither?

What do you think was the best / most important move for this season?

What do you think was the best / most important move for the future?

What do you think was the worst move?

What were you most disappointed by?

Do you expect any more big moves before the season starts?

My answers:

Celtics

A+

Next season

Re-signing Garnett

We're not really a "future" team right now so maybe drafting Jared Sullinger

Overpaying Jeff Green (assuming it will become official some day)

Ray Allen leaving was ok but having him sign for Miami was disappointing

Who knows? Maybe Blake will benefit by playing behind Nash. It worked out all right for Dragic and Leandro Barbosa but not so will for Marcus Banks, though that probably had more to do with him being Marcus Banks.

I have hope. Blake was certainly better this year under Mike Brown than he was his first year with Phil. Here's to hoping that upward trend continues and he becomes a serviceable back-up.

He really just seems to lack basic PG skills though when it comes to creating shots and breaking down defense. Sure he is a decent passer and can generally make the right pass, but aside from his shooting he doesn't contribute much on offense.

Blake was pretty good in Portland. Keep in mind that your only close up experience with him has been in the Triangle, which is notorious for ruining PGs, and Mike Brown, whose offense in Cleveland was: do something Lebron. If the Lakers actually end up running some sort of pick and roll based offense, it may open things up for him.

I think Blake can hold it down for 18 minutes a game. The problem last year was mike brown insisting on playing him 30 minutes. I think our worst mistake is not getting a backup shooting guard yet. Otherwise we'll be seeing more of those two point guard lineups that sucked so bad. Offseasons not over yet so I'm hopeful something will happen.

B+ Great draft, undefeated in Summer League, and signed/retained some free agents.

Long term and short term moves were made. Wasn't during the offseason, but I'd still like to mention the Bogut trade. I was/am a huge advocate of this trade though his returning health is still uncertain. Even If he's 75% of the player he use to be, it will still be a huge improvement for the team. As for rookies, I think we cleaned up. Got talented and dedicated ballers for all the positions we needed filled.

Jarrett Jack. With Curry's glass ankles on the mend, having a veteran who can score, dish, and drive was my #1 concern going into next season. He was a huge pickup that will spell big minutes for Curry and lead the second unit. Also, Klay Thompson playing for the USA Select Team gave him great experience. I predict big things from him this season.

The rookies. Harrison Barnes is something special already and has A LOT of room to fill out his game and learn on the job. Draymond Green has an excellent feel for the game after four years in college. Big basketball IQ and loves to hustle. Festus Ezeli is the type of body we need clogging the middle and altering shots. His offense will come with time, but his defense and rebounding excites me the most.

I don't think any moves were bad.

Disappointed Rush hasn't been re-signed yet. It will happen, but I want the team to be set for a while before heading off to training camp.

Not much more room on the roster for moves, but I've learned never to trust the Warriors with not making bonehead moves. So we'll see...

my fault. i saw on the sports center news tracker at the bottom of the show something about chicago and asik. i thought they had matched his offer. haha after doing further research i found out i was completely wrong and deserved all of these: http://i.qkme.me/35eeug.jpg

We have so much cap flexibility that it's ridiculous. Lamb, D-Mo, Jones, and White (4 rookies with great potential) will all be signed to cheap rookie contracts in addition to the ones that Parsons, Patterson, and Morris are signed to. Lin and Asik's contracts are both for 3 years.

Without Dwight or another star, we'll surely get less than 35 wins - young teams tend to not do well (ignore OKC, their stars have 3+ years of experience). That means a potentially high draft pick in addition to picks we've accumulated.

If we do get Dwight or another star (and they stay), we can easily build around them since we have so much salary to give out.

If we get Dwight or another star (and they leave), tank city baby.

I don't know about you, but I've hated the last 3 years of being 9th place in the Western Conference. I loved the heart the Rockets have shown, but being stuck with the 14th pick every time sucks.

I don't understand how that's possible, but I'll try my best to explain again.

Last year's roster was going no where except either missing the playoffs or a 1st round exit. Oh boy, early defeat or the #14 pick AGAIN.

None of the free agents this year were going to come to Houston, so we weren't going to get better that way. Now, we have rookies with potential rather than players who have hit their ceiling or are near it. Lamb looks like a natural scorer. D-Mo has a solid post-game and hustles like a mad man. Royce, though he's had his struggles, has shown crazy passing ability and court vision. Jones has been a solid PF. All of that was shown in the Summer League, of course, but they've looked good.

Lin has shown that he can be a high quality PG. Don't agree the morons who think he's a revolving door on defense - he's not.

People laugh at Asik's lack of offense, but he is a great defensive presence. His foot speed allows him to bother guards on pick and rolls. More importantly, he's an actual 7 footer. We'll have to see how he takes the bench to starter transition, but I'd love to see how an Asik-Motiejunas front court operates.

If you want our team to win as many games as possible, then yes, we've gotten worse. If you want our team to have a better future though, we've gotten way better. We've gotten rid of almost everything that could have bogged down our future. This team will likely win less than 30 games, and that means high draft pick.

You must not have seen the Asik I saw in person. He got gassed If he played more than 16 minutes or so. And when he got tired, he got lazy. Not to mention the hands of stone and not going up strong at the rim. I'm going to miss him but he is under developed for 26 years old.

I don't see why... Lin is good. Maybe properly paid (time will tell). Asik is good and improving. Definitely overpaid tho. But your rookies and youth have a lot of potential. You weren't gonna get much better than an 8th seed keeping who you had. IDK. I don't think the rockets are really in a worse place.

That is blatantly wrong. Our roster is almost completely different now. We went from Camby/Dalembert to Asik, from Scola to one of our other 14 PFs, Lee to Lamb (probably since Martin will probably be shipped out), and Lowry+Dragic to Lin.

Personally, I think we'll end up around 12th in the WC unless our rookies turn out really well. But that's close enough.

Anyways, you were talking about how "we basically did the most shuffling this off season to end up where we started". But don't you think the massive changes to our roster and long-term prospects are counters to that statement? Rarely have I talked to a basketball fan who thinks only about next year.

I don't think they could. Look at all the teams that needed a Center. Portland, Rockets, I bet they somehow talked with JaVale. Nuggets offer is really good if you look at some others (DeAndre Jordan, Omer Asik come on, this guys don't deserve that money). JaVale has a ton of potential, and he has shown some amazing game versus the Lakers in playoffs last season. He's worth that 50 mil.

2.On an F - A+ scale, what grade do you give this offseason for your team? B. The only thing they didn't do was retain Lin, and while it sucks, I'm OK with what we did do. Adding Kidd, Felton, Camby, Brewer, and re-signing Novak and JR Smith, we all good moves.

3.Do you feel like your team made moves to improve next season, in the long term, both, or neither? Knicks fans know we have 3 more years. I think what we lack, mostly, is experience o nthe court amongst the teammates. Injuries, no offseason, new players... these are things that have stunted team development.

4.What do you think was the best / most important move for this season? The most important move was at PG. We didn't assemble anything spectuacular, but Kidd and Felton should at least be servicable. Plus, Kidd brings leadership, which htis team definitely needs.

5.What do you think was the best / most important move for the future? Not signing Lin will give us cap flexibility. This is really the only move that addressed "the future

6.What do you think was the worst move? Knicks PR was disgusting in regards to how they treated Lin

7.What were you most disappointed by? Having Lin was exciting. I feel like we lost flair as much as we did talent. Also, Knicks PR

Well said. I also think it was a B offseason. Many moves were made, many of them good. But Lin would have been an important piece to add and they fucked that one up royally. It was more than just PR: they fucked upevery step of the way in that fiasco.

But the Knicks on paper do have every position figured out and that's important, so they should have a top four seed locked up if they come together and play to their ability.

Most of these seem spot on for me, except #6, not getting a Free Agent Shooting Guard? That's an interesting thing to be disappointed in. With Matthews and a FA we wouldn't really be able to play any of our young guys (Elliot Williams, Will Barton, Nolan Smith) at that spot, and since a lot of what we're doing is setting up for long term, I don't see why paying someone there would be a good option.

What's disappointed me the most has been the coaching search, we didn't have a lot of big names, but none of them made it to second round of interviews.

I'm excited to see more of the young guys, but given recent history I don't trust Eliot to be very reliably healthy over the course of a full season, not yet at least. I was hoping for some sort of instant-offense off the bench kind of player, like we had with Crawford last season. Ironically I think he'd be a much better fit on this team than he was a year ago.

Agreed...if we can get something of worth for him, then we might bump that to a D, but I still see no reason for trading Anderson...The Magic seem to have a history of developing players only to seem they get traded while they are in their prime.

I'll be really interested in watching you guys this year. I simply don't think Wall is as good as the other young PGs in the league: Rose/Westbrook/Rubio/Lin/Irving but he now has a surrounding cast that will allow him to prove me wrong if he is up to it.

I also really want to see Valancuinas in Toronto... I wanted that guy at #2 in 2011 instead of Derrick Williiams but that's water under the bridge.

I feel Lin's popularity and hype (aside from obvious reasons) all arose from his spectacular pick and roll game. As time goes on, teams will figure him out, plan for him, and he will become a slightly above average PG at best. (Just my opinion) Wall's greatest shortcoming is his lack of a consistent jumper. I've been hearing that he's spent a lot of time focusing on that this offseason rather than playing in any and every summer/charity league he can. He had to learn how to vary his speed, rather than going 100mph on every play. We know he can get to the basket at will, we know he can deliver the ball, we know he can run the offense. If he ever becomes an unpredictable scorer, like a Westbrook or Rose, he's an all-star every year. Team's know to play off of him because he's not a great shooter so they can have a buffer zone to meet him at the rim when he inevitably drives past them. Just imagine if they had to play him honest because his shooting is a threat. You send the double-team, and there's Beal open for the spot-up shot. That all hinges on him developing that shot, but when he does, his ceiling is MUCH higher than Jeremy Lin's.

I could certainly see Wall with a jumper being better, but he hasn't shown that yet so I can't say Wall is undoubtedly better than Lin. Also the problem with arguing that people will figure out Lin's PnR game is that the PnR is the bread and butter of the NBA. Everyone runs it, you don't need to do extra work to figure out how to stop it because everyone gameplans against it and everyone plans to run it to some extent.

I do think Wall has more physical tools than Lin, and Lin needs a left hand but right now I think they're very comparable with Lin just barely edging out Wall due to being a more efficient scorer.

That's fair I guess. BUT, please don't underestimate the environment surrounding the two. Lin was around 'Melo, Amare, Shumpert, Novak, etc. He was on a offensively productive team, with stars. More importantly, he was on a team that was winning. Tell me who Wall has been around. McGee, Blatche, Vesely? Come on, Wall was the centerpiece of the offense and had play as such. If Wall's offense wasn't there, there was no backup plan. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the Knicks were a top 5 team last year, but they undoubtedly had people who knew how to play. The Wizards are slowly developing that. As Wall develops, so will the team and his stardom. Ask yourself honestly, if Lin was on the Bobcats last year, or hell, even the Wizards, would we know who he was?

As a Laker fan on the outside looking in, I thought the Timberwolves had a pretty good off season. Shame more people aren't talking about you guys but I think you guys will do well next season. Good luck!

I give them an A. They dumped a lot of bench players that lacked basketball intelligence (Webster, Darko!, Wes, Beasley) and picked up players to replace them that have basketball smarts and technically are way better players overall. Our defense is going to be greatly upgraded over last season that's for sure. That was our biggest problem.

Edit: Kahn said during the AK47 announcement that they might have one more big move up their sleeve. At least that's what Jerry Zgoda tweeted.

3.) I think the signing of Diaw will help us even more so then last year given he will have a full year to develop with the team. Patty Mills also showed signs of fire power off the bench and will have a full year to develop along side Tony. Basically, we made all of our moves late last season so this season we should see them all come together. I am also excited about De Colo. He shows promise of a Manu style of play. Our bench could be loaded this year. Edit: Forgot about Danny Green. Hopefully he proves his worth.

4.)Signing Diaw and of course Duncan taking a pay cut.

5.) Duncan's pay cut. Give us room next season to make some moves if we wanted.

6.)Not signing a true big, but really we just didn't have the cap. Centers are pricey.

7.)Not unloading DaJuan Blair. It makes no sense to play a guy all season and bench him in the playoffs. If we don't want him we need to find a home for him.

8.) I expect no moves until Trade deadline if any. We have some big contracts that are expiring (Jackson being key) and could potentially land some solid players to help for the playoff push.

I agree with C+...yes, we brought back the team with the league's best record, but we didnt address the big glaring hole in the post that has caused us to get bounced out of the playoffs 2 years in a row now.

I personally think at some point Kawhi will make Capt. Jack entirely expendable, and we can use his big expiring deal for a big man.

I say B+ simply because we had a solid team last year that just seemed to run out of gas in the WCF. We lost no one and should only get better as Kawhi grows and the new additions have more time to get used to the team.

We didn't really do anything to get better...but we tried to make sure we wouldn't get any worse...we had the 5th overall record last year, if we can get that again, I consider the season a success...for a small market team. We had a horrible draft and missed out on most key free agents, but maintained our core team and look to be heading in the right direction by maintaining Hibbert and Hill.

Hill was a better starter, Collison is too good to ride the bench and never really gelled with the second unit. I love the guy, but losing him was acceptable, especially since it freed up room to sign DJ Augustine.

The worse move was losing Dahntay Jones. He was a really good locker room guy, played stellar defense on the perimeter and had a decent shot.

Love Bellinelli at the bi-annual exception, a substantially better value than Korver while accomplishing approximately the same thing.

Teague has excellent upside and can go against two great guards in practice. But not matching on Omer was far and beyond the best long term move this offseason.

We signed Vlad-Rad to his 7th team. Granted he's the last guy off the bench, but I've just never liked him all that much.

In theory I would have liked a push to at least explore trading for Howard, but really I am pleased with almost all moves made. I don't like Vlad-Rad, but it's hardly a game changer.

No.

I am very, very pleased with our offseason. There is zero chance we compete for a ring next year. EVERYONE knows that it takes 2 years to completely recover from an ACL, and nobody, not even Derrick, is an exception to that rule. We have done a great job adding quality players on low value, low year contracts so we can field a competitive team next year. Jimmy, Marquis, and Taj will all have time to develop, Jo and Lu can ease back in, and management will be able to clear a lot of salary for the 2013 season by not resigning Lu and amnestying Booz. Given the constraints of our contracts and injured players, Bulls management did an excellent job not over-reacting.

Rose, Lu, Taj, and Noah are still young, Jimmy and Marquis have upside and time to develop into rotation guys or even occasional starters, Mirotic is absolutely killing the Euroleague, and Charlotte didn't get Davis, so that pick is more valuable.

Let it breathe, Chicago fans. We are fine in the long run. As for next year, let's enjoy watching Taj take the next step.

I'd like to see Taj and Noah's continued development without D.Rose for a bit. I think they have a chance to be a real formidable front court. Get rid of Boozer next season, Rose will hopefully be back to full speed, we'll have some FA's and trades to look at and we can be right back into the Championship conversation.

Nicely put man. I've been getting tired of Chicago fans getting mad that the Bulls didn't go after an all star or spend money. I'm glad with everything they've done this offseason. "The night is darkest just before the dawn. And I promise you, the dawn is coming."

Intentionally. He's as good as they come, sure, but 3-4 years from now he won't be in the race for the best point guards. The point isn't who currently is great, it's who will be in the future. I left Nash off the list too, remember.

A lot of people would say the Fields deal, but I say failing to trade Calderon. I like him a lot as a backup, but his $9 million could be put to better use, especially if we get JL3. They could also probably get some decent pieces for him.

The fact that as of now this team is close to the cap and probably has no all-stars. Also, Nash leaving 25% more money on the table to avoid coming to the Raptors. I prefer Lowry, but it's still a huge blow to be rejected so publicly.

I think we mostly improved for next season all of our additions are on short contracts, We already have a lot of young guys on long term deals though.

We really addressed our 3pt shooting problem. I think Mo Williams is alot tougher player than Devin Harris and a better shooter. Marvin Williams is obviously better than C.J Miles also a better shooter. Randy Foye is obviously better than Raja Bell who we bought out. The Williams's and Foye made more 3 pointers last year than the entire jazz team did.

Everyone one we brought in is on a one year contract except Marvin Williams who has a player option for a second year. So we have a metric ton of cap space and expiring contracts.

I think we possible could have gotten a better player for Devin Harris. I'm nitpicking though.

I was hoping we could move up in the draft to get Damian Lilliard

Maybe not before the season starts but by trade deadline I see the jazz trading one of their bigs or guards. With the Foye addition we now have 3 guys behind Mo who can play back up one

On an F - A+ scale, what grade do you give this offseason for your team? A-

Do you feel like your team made moves to improve next season, in the long term, both, or neither? Next season

What do you think was the best / most important move for this season? Trading for JJ. According to Deron that was what convinced him to stay.

What do you think was the best / most important move for the future? Signing Hump to a 12 mil a year deal but for only 2 years. The off chance we can get a Dwight trade going, he'll be a valuable expiring for next season.

What do you think was the worst move? The amount of money that was thrown around, but in reality once you're over the cap it doesn't matter as long as Proky doesn't care.

What were you most disappointed by? D-12 not being a Net by now

Do you expect any more big moves before the season starts? Nah son, we done

Money's not an issue. This is the first time the Nets are paying the luxury tax since 2003....the last time they went to the finals. It''s nice for Nets fans that we have an owner that cares about winning

I'm actually one of the few who is kind of glad the Nets didn't get Howard. I believe strongly in Lopez's ability and i think he is a great fit in the team - plus he's Mr. Net. I also really feel like Marshon Brooks will excel in his James Harden role - scorer off the bench.

I love Lopez as much as the next guy, but our interior defense is practically nonexistent. Hump is not a great defender by any means and I'm not sure Lopez knows what defense means. Bringing Dwight in changes all of that and makes us a top 10 defense. You don't win in this league without defense. This team as constructed now is a perennial 1st or 2nd round knockout.

As a Spurs fan, you learn to expect little from the off-season. The fact that they resigned all of the key pieces with reasonable salaries was expected. Bringing over De Colo is a surprise, so I have to call it a positive overall.

2. On an F - A+ scale, what grade do you give this offseason for your team?
- A+

3. Do you feel like your team made moves to improve next season, in the long term, both, or neither?
- While I see a definite improvement next season, I think we are definitely a team built for the future considering Jason Smith is our oldest player at 26 besides Hakim Warrick.

4. What do you think was the best / most important move for this season?
- Besides getting Anthony Davis with the number 1 overall pick, it would have to be resigning Eric Gordon even though his attitude playing here has yet to be seen.

5. What do you think was the best / most important move for the future?
- Drafting Anthony Davis with the number 1 overall pick, perfect piece to build around.

6.What do you think was the worst move?
- Personally I didn't like the Austin Rivers pick at 10, it seems we are going to play him at point but considering he loves to shoot and he isn't a very good passer I think it might be a recipe for disaster. Would have much rather picking a center like Meyers Leonard

7. What were you most disappointed by?
- Releasing Jarret Jack, even though it seems to have been a cap decision we lost our only real veteran leader and a solid point guard.

I do not expect any more big moves. The Kings are up against the salary cap, and are strapped for money in this small market. They can't afford to take on more contracts. I also believe that if they were going to be able to move the heavy, bad contracts, they would have been able to do so already. I think no one wants our veterans, and for good reason.

The Kings' problem this offseason is one that was coming and we could see from last season. They didn't have major contracts coming off the books, had just signed a couple free agents last year to terrible, long-term contracts, and were just too tied up with money. The only thing we could hope for was to get something in trades as well as the draft. The problems, therefore, aren't any active decisions they made (I don't think they actively did anything wrong so far this offseason), but rather that they didn't take enough/any action on their bad contracts. Its about the worst position you can be in when your team takes in the lowest revenue in the league, but has long term contracts that push you up against the salary cap.

More so than any of these evaluations, I care about the team staying in Sacramento. Even if they get to a .500 season in 2013, I'd still be shivering at the thought of the team being moved. When your team is on the ropes of being taken away from you, you don't really care too much that Chuck Hayes, Francisco Garcia, and John Salmons are signed for 19.5 million altogether next season. Take out those contracts, sign a top free agent this offseason and keep Whiteside and Terrence Williams, and this offseason would have been incredible. Obviously, that's just not going to happen so I reserved myself a while ago to just paying attention to arena talks.

Picking up collison, mayo, brand, kaman, dumping haywood, drafting at least two solid picks in James and crowder. No, we haven't filled our roster with all-stars, but with potential. I'm confident we will keep our playoff streak alive, and maybe even turn out to be the dark horse in the playoffs.

On an F - A+ scale, what grade do you give this offseason for your team?

B+

Do you feel like your team made moves to improve next season, in the long term, both, or neither?

I think the improvements next season will depend heavily on Odom and Hill. If they can give 85% of what Clippers fans expect of them, we will be better offensively and defensively. Also, the re-signing of Blake Griffin cannot be understated. Everything is on course to re-sign CP3 next year.

What do you think was the best / most important move for this season?

Long-term: resigning BG32
This year: The trade for Lamar Odom. His versatility will lead to him seeing a very high number of minutes off the bench. Repeat 6th man of the year? Hope so.

What do you think was the best / most important move for the future?

Re-signing Blake. Everything other than that was tooling up for this year to make a deep run and convince Paul he should stay.

What do you think was the worst move?

Signing Jamal Crawford to the amount we did. But he filled a need, so I'm not too down on the move. But it could have been better done. Also, they should have gotten Brendan Haywood from Dallas in the Lamar Odom trade.

What were you most disappointed by?

Griffin's injury, stopping him from playing in the Olympics. Still hoping that he works out with Hakeem for a couple weeks.

I'm a Celtics fan and spend most of my time over in /r/bostonceltics but the offseason is starting to wind down and I'm wondering how you feel about your team's moves. I think the Celtics have had an A+ offseason but I haven't been paying nearly as close attention to most of the other teams. I read the "Grades" article on ESPN but I was hoping to get some fan perspectives so...

What team do you support?
Miami

On an F - A+ scale, what grade do you give this offseason for your team?
C, C-

Do you feel like your team made moves to improve next season, in the long term, both, or neither? Ray ray was the beat improvement, but he's on the old side, we don't need any more oldies.

What do you think was the best / most important move for this season? Allen, tho old can wet the three like posiedon

What do you think was the best / most important move for the future? Letting Anthony go, clears up so much cap room

What do you think was the worst move? Signing Rashard Lewis, the last thing we need is a 6'11" pf that shoots threes but doesn't rebound.

What were you most disappointed by? Not getting a quality big like camby.

Do you expect any more big moves before the season starts?
The market for bigs is shitty at best. And we're not big signers.

Worst move? Not much, but maybe releasing Jordan Farmar. He could've provided some good depth at the point.

Joe Johnson leaving, honestly. I know it freed up a lot of cap space but the dude was my favorite player I've ever watched play live. Great guy, great player, I'll miss him and still support him in Brooklyn.

We better sign another starting caliber forward so we aren't starting Morrow or Korver.

Getting rid of Nazr and Fisher. We signed 3 young guys for about 4 million less with PJ3, Hollis Thompson, and Hasheem. Removing Nazr was probably the best since it forces a competition between Cole and Hasheem. Perk has a chance to be amnestied so getting those two up to speed is a top priority.

Signing Shved! I'm really worried about Shved's defense but he looks like a great passer, gets to the rack, draws fouls, and shoots well from downtown. Nothings certain when moving from Euro to NBA but I like his chances. Honorable mention goes to giving only a 2 year contract to AK47 which is up when Rubio needs his new contract.

Roy. I just don't think the guy has knees anymore and $5 mil should have been able to get us Ronnie Brewer or 20mpg of TMac.

The draft. I like Budinger but it just feels like there are a bunch of guys who could have been had for cheap that would have been useful bench guys for 1-4 years at very low costs. Jenkins, Crowder, Barton, O'Quinn and Denmon being the ones I really liked. Instead Dallas gets 33 & 34 from Cleveland dirt cheap and we draft Hummel who can't guard anyone while the Spurs pick Denmon immediately after.

B- we had a really good draft (hopefully they show up in the actual season as well as they have in the summer league) Jeremy Lin isn't as good of a PG as we just had, but hopefully he'll bring more of a spotlight to us and help with FA signings and make people want to get traded to us. We still have like 8 power forwards and kevin Martin so we're gonna need to trade soon. Glad we haven't (yet) traded Scola and didn't get Dwight. The roster doesn't even look recognizable compared to last year so it's gonna be hit or miss, but at the end of the day I can see us missing the playoffs with our current roster. Sooo, between C- and B-

Mavericks
An overrated B- or even C+
Made shortterm moves when a plan didn't come through, obviously shortterm plans
Best move was OJ Mayo to replace JET, even though OJ is still mediocre so far, needed a SG bad in this offense
Worst move was probably Collison, he gives us a false hope somehow without being a PG. I almost said Brand because somehow fans think our old and slow frontcourt will be good on defense
Most important for the future was not caving and signing some other mediocre player for 2+ years
I was most disappointed by not getting a 1st tier player
I don't expect more moves before the season starts

What? Please tell me exactly what better options were on the table. We got Collison for absolutely nothing - Mahinmi was leaving anyways.

I wouldn't rate this offseason too highly, but under the circumstances the Collison and Brand acquisitions were both A moves. We got two very solid players for essentially nothing. Have you seen what we're paying Brand this year? He's practically playing for free.

Well you are right we got both on the cheap, i just think they give a false sense of hope. There were true pgs available, and i see brand as another caron butler move, dont think either will work out enough to get us past the 2nd against anyone except houston or phoenix. 4 of the top 6 players are new and on 1 year contracts, i see a bunch of isolation offfense and little defensive chemistry.

Wizards
2. C+
3. Improved short and long term
4. Getting rid of all our knuckle heads for other players
5. Drafting Beal.
6. Trading for Omeka and Ariza too early and giving NO our 46th pick.
7. The "progress" of Chris Singleton, Shelvin Mack and Jan Vesely
8. Nope.

On an F - A+ scale, what grade do you give this offseason for your team? B for Knicks, B+ for celtics.

Do you feel like your team made moves to improve next season, in the long term, both, or neither? Celtics made solid draft picks, retained Jeff green (lotta potential), shored up rebounding problems, and resigned KG. Knicks didn't sign much new talent, but adressed PG issues, and got some big men.

What do you think was the best / most important move for this season? Celts- Getting Sullinger. Knicks- getting raymond felton

What do you think was the best / most important move for the future? ^

What do you think was the worst move? I'm not a big terry fan. Knicks should have kept Lin

What were you most disappointed by? FUCK YOU DOLAN

Do you expect any more big moves before the season starts? Knicks don't have any trade bait. Celtics are pretty complete. Nah

4) Adding depth and veteran leadership in the form of Kidd and Camby, on top of resigning Novak and Smith to keep most of the same core.

5) Not trading Shumpert for Nash, I suppose.

6&7) Lin. Letting a young and exciting player with great upside walk away for absolutely nothing makes little to no fucking sense. Even if that backloaded contract would have cost the Knicks a pretty penny, they could have easily traded him before the last year of his contract to avoid getting hit by the luxury tax. Man, fuck Dolan.

8) I think the Brewer signing is the last significant thing the Knicks do in the offseason, so no.